Study of the Hegemony of Parasitism - michaeljgoodnight.com

"In the Panic of 1837, Belmont was able to perform a service which he would
repeat in subsequent panics, thanks to the hugeness of the Rothschild
reservoir of capital, to start out in America operating his own Federal
Reserve System."
After 1837, August Belmont (Schönberg) was
publicly advertised in the financial press as the
American representative of the Rothschilds. When
Belmont participated in a financial operation,
everyone knew that the Rothschilds were involved.
When Belmont took no part, and the transaction was
handled by J.P. Morgan & Co., and/or by Kuhn, Loeb
Co., everyone "knew" [that is, "assumed"] that the
Rothschilds were not involved.
George Peabody had established his business in
England through his connection with Brown Brothers
(now Brown Bros. Harriman and Brown, Shipley). He had
become an unidentified agent for Lord [Nathan]
Rothschild as early as 1835. Although there is no statue
of George Peabody in the Wall Street area, there is one
in London, just opposite the Bank of England. George
Peabody became "the favorite American" of Queen
Victoria. His old lunchbox occupies a prominent place in
the London office of Morgan Stanley to this day.
By 1861, George Peabody had become the largest
trader of American securities in the world. To put
pressure on the Lincoln government, he began unloading
them and driving prices down. At the same time,
[Junius?] Morgan, allied with Morris Ketchum, was
depleting the American gold supply by shipping it to